Example sentences of "taking [pron] away [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the crowd shifted around me , thankfully taking me away from their gazes . |
| 2 | This was my case , dusted down from Granny 's attic when they were taking me away from the farm . |
| 3 | ‘ Venture capitalists ’ is an appropriate name , because the quest for suitable deals is increasingly taking them away from straightforward MBOs . |
| 4 | It has been found that taking them away from the contamination and giving them a healthy diet for a month can boost their damaged immune systems for up to 18 months . |
| 5 | But , Debbie was just getting to the stage where she was just to same on the shift , erm , but yes , you need , like , th , the , you get certain people that , they just need the challenge , but then you can find yourself erm , getting into a situation where you 're giving them those extra things to do but you 're taking them away from somebody else , so they 're like just going into the background , you know . |
| 6 | right cos then you 're taking them away from the fact that you want other quotes right , they 'll say to you oh we were n't thinking of doing it actually until the winter , right and then you can say to them well let me just say that by placing your order in now we can put your installation in hand , right , basically at today 's prices , right , on an extended delivery , right , and you can still qualify for a special offer , right |
| 7 | ‘ I think he 's ruining your life , he 's taking you away from your work , from your thinking , toward something empty and false — he 's certainly wasting your time , they both are , they 're exploiting you . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I see this taking you away from me . |
| 9 | I was still debating between taking you away from him , waiting for it to end anyway , or doing nothing at all — the last because I knew that if your reaction to me was purely physical , I could have you … but probably damage you emotionally . ’ |
| 10 | The old man does tell the visitor the story of the woman of Porto Pim ( and his own ) , but there remains something menacing about the silence of the listener-narrator , as though he were taking something away with no intention of giving anything in return . |
| 11 | The same sort of ‘ business ’ that was taking him away for ten days . |
| 12 | I thought he was taking her away for ever . |
| 13 | He had thought that taking her away from her mother 's influence would have encouraged her to stand on her own two feet . |
| 14 | This prevented the girl 's parents taking her away from the home of her 18-year-old boyfriend . |
| 15 | Once the process was completed , older boys , apprentice papermakers , came and dislodged the sheet , taking it away to the drying trestles , where it had to be carefully watched and removed after it had dried but before it began to turn yellow in the sun . |
| 16 | Because when we take , it 's best to have one here and then Claire will be taking it away with her when you go . |
| 17 | I 'm not taking it away from directors . |
| 18 | Falls partly because it 's shutting down the ends of the arteries , the arteries themselves can actually contract because they 're muscular walled , yes , the arteries can contract and that tends to shut down and reduce the pressure slightly in that area , right and also the body itself is gon na divert that blood is n't it to the core of the body taking it away from other areas , damaged areas , so how can we help to reduce the pressure any more ? |
| 19 | But I should think part of that good fun would be able to devise means of grabbing power back from Central Government when they 're taking it away from you . |
| 20 | As I would disagree with the notion that we are taking anything away from society , the notion of ‘ putting something back ’ may sound misplaced . |
| 21 | It seems to me that however attractive this addendum is , it 's taking us away from the real issue which is about the baptism one which the bishop er also kind of brought up er and which we 've been exercising ourselves over . |